Also in the Gamespy 30th Anniversary of Dungeons and Drgaons is this interview with founder (essentially) Gary Gygax. I am not sure how many of you remember the scandals in the early 1980’s, when people were blaming D&D for anti-social behavior, including murder and suicide. It was nonsense then, is nonsense now.
It seems Gygax remembers who to blame for the bad publicity:
GameSpy: Do you find it interesting that what D&D went through in the ’80s and comic books went through in the early ’50’s is so similar to what video games are going through now?
Gygax: Oh yeah. The idea that a game is anything more than a game